Chandigarh: The family of Ruchika Girhotra, who committed suicide after being molested by former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore, has raised no objection to CBI's closure reports dropping torture charges against the cop. The reports filed by the investigating agency say there's no evidence to prove that Ruchika' brother Ashu Girhotra was tortured while in police custody or that the signatures of her father, S C Girhotra, had been forged on...
02:16 PM, Jun 02, 2012
New Delhi: Rapists should be awarded a minimum sentence of 7 years which can be reduced only in special circumstances, the Supreme Court has ruled ticking off the Rajasthan High Court for reducing the punishment of two convicts in a rape case. "Such an order is violative of the mandatory requirement of law and has defeated the legislative mandate. Deciding the case in such a casual manner reduces the criminal...
07:28 PM, May 22, 2012
New Delhi: Eighty per cent of the bank loans are taken by people to meet dowry demands. One woman dies every hour in our country in dowry related cases. On Sunday, May 20, Aamir Khan brought home the ugly truths about giving and accepting dowry in our big fat Indian weddings. Aamir spoke to several victims, community leaders and even a politician to get to the bottom of the issue....
01:38 PM, May 20, 2012
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Friday assured farmers of Bhatta-Parsaul villages that criminal cases lodged against them by the previous Mayawati-led government would be withdrawn. The assurance was given to a farmers' delegation that called on Akhilesh at his official residence. The farmers told the Chief Minister that fake cases were lodged against them by the previous BSP regime during their protest against land acquisition in June...
02:28 AM, May 12, 2012
New Delhi: There is no proposal to set up special courts for trial of rape cases, but states are being impressed upon to probe such crimes more efficiently by deputing best officers, Home Minister P Chidambaram said on Wednesday. "At present, there is no proposal under consideration," he said in the Rajya Sabha during Question Hour when asked if the government proposes to set up special courts to ensure speedy...
01:31 PM, May 09, 2012
London: A Japanese firm called Marudai has unveiled a $650 bulletproof case for your iPhone. It could offer the perfect protection for those planning to recreate the infamous 'iPhone vs gun' videos popular on YouTube, which see amateur marksmen shooting their phones and other gadgets to see what happens to them. The bulletproof case features an inch thick slab of steel plating the firm claims can resist a .50 caliber...
01:45 PM, Apr 16, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has come down heavily on an Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) and the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) for acting in "haste" and "forgetting" to look into merits before summonses were issued in a criminal case. "The order of CMM summoning them (accused) is wholly illegal and unwarranted. Both the Additional Sessions Judge and the CMM in haste have forgotten to look at the merits of...
08:15 PM, Apr 12, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to examine if the Special Investigating Team appointed by it to inquire into the 2002 post-Godhra riot cases can share its report with the Nanavati Commission, which too is probing into Godhra train carnage and the subsequent riots. A bench headed by Justice DK Jain said it will look into the matter, when the SIT approached it with a plea for its...
01:41 PM, Mar 26, 2012
Kolkata: Under fire for the deteriorating law and order situation in West Bengal, it seems the Mamata Banerjee government now feels that shutting down nightclubs would prevent rapes in the state. Ironically, this move by the Mamata government is supposedly to keep a tab on the deteriorating law and order situation in the state. The excise department has decided not to issue Late Closure Licenses (LCL) for next month. The...
08:24 PM, Mar 04, 2012
Kolkata: After being attacked by the Opposition, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Bannerjee is now facing criticism from her own party members. Singer and Trinamool Congress MP Kabir Suman spoke out against the numerous rape incidents reported across the state. "I feel very very concerned over one rape after the other," he said. "What's going on in Mamata Banerjee's mind, I don't know, I find this strange, specially the Park...
10:22 AM, Mar 02, 2012
Six rape cases have been reported so far in 2012 in West Bengal. ...
11:25 PM, Feb 29, 2012
Kolkata: Despite West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's tall claims, another rape case has been reported in Bankura district of the state. An 18-year-old hearing impaired patient was allegedly raped by an attending doctor at the government-run Bankura Medical College and Hospital late Monday evening. The CID and the state Health Department are probing the charges, but no arrests have been made so far. "They took my daughter for examination...
10:43 PM, Feb 29, 2012
New Delhi: Think ten times before you call Delhi and NCR 'the most unsafe place for women under the sun' again. Delhi and the NCR is definitely the most unsafe place for women in India. But a comparison of the 2007 data (as that is the latest available from the National Crime Records Bureau) suggests that Delhi with 3.57 rapes per 1,00,000 people fared pretty well as compared to the...
07:52 AM, Feb 29, 2012
Bhopal The heartland of India Madhya Pradesh is unsafe for women -figures of rapes and deaths of women in the state during the last three years presented in the state assembly by Home Minister Uma Shankar Gupta reveal an alarming picture. The minister, in a written reply to legislator Praduman Singh Tomar during the ongoing assembly session, informed that 9,926 women have been raped in the state during the last...
02:24 PM, Feb 23, 2012
Brussels: European Union regulators are investigating whether Samsung Electronics breached antitrust rules in its legal battles against rivals, among them Apple, which use its mobile technology patents. South Korea's Samsung, the world's top maker of smartphones, is involved in a patent tussle with Apple in 10 countries including the United States, Australia, France and Japan. Apple is also Samsung's biggest customer. Last year, Samsung sought injunctions in various EU countries...
05:33 PM, Jan 31, 2012
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